Create snapshot mechanism to refer to builds in Jira issues
Fixed
Description
We need a mechanism to identify Jenkins builds (snapshots) so that developers and testers can refer to a specific build when creating an issue in Jira.
Also, inside each snapshot, a VERSION file (or whatever name: 'build.conf', 'snapshot.id' ... ) containing the real dir name (ex: '2015-11-12-b36') would be useful to find the snapshot accessed through the 'latest' link.
With these improvements, we can then have external CI tools running and polling for new snapshots (for QA tasks for ex. or simply to ring loudly on my desktop and wake me up )
My 2 cents...
Jan-Simon Moeller
October 26, 2015 at 1:12 PM
Note: Jenkins has for each build job a counter that is increased for every build. So that is easy. The hard part wrt disk space and so on is what we keep for each build and how long these are kept.
Walt Miner
October 20, 2015 at 10:18 PM
Dev Meeting: Walt to set up a meeting with Jan-Simon and Stephane for Monday so we have proposal for next week's dev call.
We need a mechanism to identify Jenkins builds (snapshots) so that developers and testers can refer to a specific build when creating an issue in Jira.